attention dieters!

Need to kill those junk food cravings?! I have the solution! Just knit woolley (inedible, fat free) versions of the forbidden foods & kill your cravings!

Or you could just knit them because... um.... well you might want to...er...

Hmm.

more aussie than an outdated stereotype

I wish I'd known about this book on Australia Day! (And all those countless other days!) All that time I was sitting around thinking: "I wanna make a cake... I want it to be patriotic, but not obvious. I want it to say "Australia", but not in a modern, artistic, or indeed even obviously edible way...?" 

Behold!

Because I know y'all have always wanted to make an edible

...VICTA mower...

...Tuckerbox (Of course u cant eat the dog! Because that'd be weird.)...

...Akubra...

...Caravan! (I dont know how many times I've wanted to make a caravan cake...)...

...Meat pie with patriotic sauce! (Imagine! An edible meat pie!)...

...Billy (complete with gumleaf and soggy tea bag accessories)...

...Hills Hoist! (What? You can only eat the patch of lawn?! Disappointing!)...

...Weber-Que! (You call those sausages 'done'? That's not nearly enough charcoal for a true Aussie barbie! And where's the proverbial 'shrimp'?)...

But seriously, all joking aside, there are some cute Aussie animal cakes in this book - just look at this sweet little spearmint-leaf salt water croc!!! OMG he's ADORABLE!!! 

"C'mere! C'mere, you cute little...naaaw look at that: he's gnawing my leg off! Aww! Look he's doing a cheeky little death-roll and dragging me under the surface! Squee! Someone get the camera!!!"

extreme frugality

No one's more respected in the world of home-cookery than the Country Women's Association. These are women who know how to be domestic, productive and frugal. The proof of which lies in their cookbook:

Why would I feature this as a 'wtf book'? Well, there's frugality, and there's...

And of course, there's the ever popular...

I don't even wanna know what's in the

Or the

Or

Eek O.o

But what's really bizarre is, if this was a book published in the depression.. in post-war ration days, it would make more sense. But no:

And therefore, I cant help but wonder how applicable some of these recipes will be to a modern audience...? Although with the cost of electricity and fuel going up and up... SO. Just in case: Here are some helpful hints:

why are knitting/crochet books such great blog-fodder?

I love handmade stuff, but if someone turned up with one of these for my birthday, I would punch them.

Wow that's really... ha ha ha ha!

:)

...

:/

But no.

why would you bother???

I love a boiled egg as much as the next guy, but I have NEVER felt like I needed one of these. But maybe that's just me...?

lost for words

Ever wanted to combine your love of food, with your love of fashion, with your love of crochet, with your love of cute?

Wow. Just wow.

That

is

so

COOL!!! :D

so: you read mysteries...?

In my naivety, I thought people read mysteries. Oh and then of course, people like  crime, thriller, spy, and suspense, and so forth. But no! I found Stop, You're Killing Me .com which is the most amazing catalogue of mystery books I've ever come across!

Here's some mystery genres you may never have known existed...

~ CAT MYSTERIES.

~ SUDOKU MYSTERIES

~ FLY FISHING MYSTERIES

~ CLERGICAL MYSTERIES

~ ANTIQUES MYSTERIES

~ EGG MYSTERIES

In fact, from what I've seen, you can pretty much specify exactly your amateur sleuth's occupation, interests, gender, sexual orientation... No: REALLY. Don't believe me? Click here.

(Ooh! And there's even Library Mysteries!)

nutella truffles

That is all.

yummmm

Just made a batch of Averie's vegan protein bars - YUM!!!! Had one for breakfast and I think I want another one!!! :)

Mine have pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and chia seeds in them as well as the other ingredients, plus 2 Tblsp coconut oil. We used Stevia instead of Agave (sorry Averie, but Agave really does taste like fug - we tried, but we cant like it!) and used about 1/2 the amount in the recipe.

Will def make these again!!!